Yoga as Embodied Resistance:
Online Book Launch with author Anjali Rao

Hosted by Jivana Heyman at Accessible Yoga


Friday October 17th, 2025

1pm-2pm PT  |  4pm-5pm EDT
(convert to your local time-zone)

*If you can't attend live, don't worry! We'll share the replay with all registrants after the event.

 

In her groundbreaking new book, Anjali Rao explores how yoga can be a vital path to resistance, agency, and collective liberation. Yoga as Embodied Resistance: A Feminist Lens on Caste, Gender, & Sacred Resilience in Yoga History illuminates the essential—but often unseen—relationships between caste and gender in yoga.

Bridging scholarship, history, and cultural analysis, Anjali inquires into how caste oppression, patriarchy, colonization, and ethno-nationalism impact contemporary practice and offers readers radical ways to re-envision a yoga grounded in liberation, discernment, and even dissent.

What you can look forward to at the FREE virtual launch party:

  • Host Jivana Heyman will introduce Anjali and ask her questions about the book 
  • Anjali will offer a short reading from the book
  • Time for Q&A with community members

Plus, the event will include two giveaways: One lucky live attendee will receive a FREE copy of the book, Yoga as Embodied Resistance, and another live attendee will win a spot in Anjali’s reading circle!

Enter your details below to register to attend this FREE live online event! (Registration also includes access to the recording, which will be shared within 24-48 hours of the live event).


Yoga as Embodied Resistance is coming on October 14!
Learn more about the book and pre-order your copy here.

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About the Author: Anjali Rao

Anjali Rao brings an intersectional and decolonial feminist lens to the study of philosophy and yoga history integrating storytelling, art and poetry. Emphasizing an embodied approach, her work interrogates the link between religions, politics and yoga. She is on the faculty of multiple yoga teacher training programs. She is the host of The Love of Yoga podcast bridging scholarship, activism and yoga. She has served as the President of the Board of Directors of Accessible Yoga Association, a non profit dedicated to ensuring accessibility and equity in yoga spaces to people of all backgrounds.

She is currently pursuing a PhD in Philosophy and Religion in California Institute of Integral Studies. Her book, Yoga As Embodied Resistance: A Feminist Lens in Caste, Gender And Sacred Resilience (North Atlantic Books, October 14, 2025) is available for preorder.

Connect with Anjali on Instagram @yoganjali and at yoganjali.me